Recognizing that the decline of local retail is accelerating the decline in newspaper ads, newspaper publishers take to the web to promote local stores. “Amazon is destroying the local retail business and the newspaper business—without local retail there won’t be any newspapers left,” says the head of the new venture.

Recognizing that the decline of local retail is accelerating the decline in newspaper ads, newspaper publishers take to the web to promote local stores. “Amazon is destroying the local retail business and the newspaper business—without local retail there won’t be any newspapers left,” says…